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Don Quixote's Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature: Fiction, Reflection, and Negative Theology

Don Quixote's Impossible Quest for the Absolute in Literature: Fiction, Reflection, and Negative Theology

Franke, William

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Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American and Iberian Literature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1032688998
ISBN13: 9781032688992
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 30 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book offers a reading particularly of Part II of Don Quixote, a reading that is embedded in a philosophical reflection on the revelation of religious truth in and through literature. Part II of Don Quixote is the far richer part for its meta-literary reflection on the novel itself as a genre and on life as such seen through the lens of self-reflection. The author has treated the phenomenon of modern self-reflexivity as originally theological in nature in previous publications (notably Dante's Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection, Routledge, 2021). The present endeavor expands this overall intellectual project, extending it into detailed consideration of what is recognizably another nodal great work inaugurating unprecedented forms of self-reflection in the early modern period. Reading the founding texts of literary and cultural tradition in this negative-theological key proves crucial to allowing them to release the full force of their religious vision in the present age, despite its sometimes obstinate secularity.

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